BPR Full Show 6/02: Hello, Western Mass.

Boston Public Radio hosts Margery Eagan and Jim Braude.

BPR Full Show 6/02: Hello, Western Mass.

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About The Episode

We open the lines on the state of immigration raids in Massachusetts. Over the weekend, an 18-year-old in Milford was detained by ICE.

Michael Curry of the NAACP and Mass League of Community Health Centers discusses the state of police reform five years after George Floyd's murder and why state Democrats are warning of harm to the health care system under Trump's budget proposal.

UN humanitarian aid worker Olga Cherevko zooms in to discuss the latest conditions in Gaza.

Boston Globe business columnist Shirley Leung continues our Market Basket coverage and gets into the finances behind the Boston mayoral race.

Food policy analyst Corby Kummer discusses the FDA failing to publicize a major e. coli outbreak and a wine critic's dispatch from the Trump Winery in Charlottesville, Virginia.

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Margery Eagan

Margery Eagan is the co-host of 89.7 WGBH’s midday program Boston Public Radio. She has worked with co-host Jim Braude for 18 years, first doing a TV show together at NECN then a radio show at WTKK. The duo came to WGBH in 2013.

Jim Braude

Jim Braude is the co-host of Boston Public Radio.During law school, Jim ran a small retail business in Provincetown (HUBE - Help Us Break Even!). He started his professional career as a legal services lawyer in the South Bronx handling housing and prisoners’ rights cases. He was the founder and first president of the National Organization of Legal Services Workers, a union representing staff in civil legal offices for the poor in 35 states. NOLSW helped lead the fight to preserve the national program when President Reagan proposed its abolition.

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